Broad Cove Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what Broad Cove (Broad Cove) is cooking up for us over the next couple of weeks.

It’s a pretty quiet start, I gotta be honest. We’re looking at a real flat spell to kick things off. The first proper chance of a wave won’t come until Monday the 7th, so we’ve got a few days of nothing much to sit through.

That Monday morning, the 7th, is the first sign of life. We’ll see a small 4ft swell pushing in from the east, with a period of 9 seconds. The wind is coming from the northwest, which is offshore here, so the surface should be clean. The combined energy sits at 243 – that’s moderate stuff, not a powerhouse. It’s a small, clean option for the intermediate crew, but it’ll be a bit of a slow starter.

The real standout, and the only one I’d get genuinely excited about, is the morning of Thursday the 10th. Now, this is a bit of a wildcard. We’ve got a 7ft swell from the south-southwest rolling in, but the period is a short 7 seconds. That’s a lot of wind-swell energy (444) and it’s going to be pretty lumpy. The wind is a strong cross-shore, so it’s not going to be clean. This one is really only for the experts – that size is well over the 8ft mark for a point break, and with the short period and onshore wind, it’s going to be a mess. Honestly, with that setup, it might be more interesting for the kite surfers than paddle surfers.

After that, the week of the 11th onwards fades fast. We get a small, clean window on the afternoon of the 11th and the morning of the 12th with some glassy conditions, but the swell is tiny, dropping to 2ft - 3ft. It’s surfable, but very ordinary. The energy drops right off into the double digits, and the rest of the outlook is a long stretch of small, poor-quality surf with mostly cross or onshore winds. There’s a little bump on the 17th and 18th, but it’s all short-period, wind-affected stuff that won’t be worth a paddle.

So, bottom line: the first week is a write-off until the 7th, and the best bet is that rough, expert-only day on the 10th. The second week is a write-off, too. It’s a lean run, but it won’t stay this way forever – forecasts always change.

Rusty.

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